Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society: The Japanese Experience (Paperback)

Part I: Postwar Japan and the Theory of Civil Society.- Chapter 1: Political Economy in Japan after World War II.- Chapter 2: Yoshihiko Uchida and his Thoughts on Civil Society: Between Equality in Exchange and Equality as Human Beings.- Chapter 3: Kiyoaki Hirata and his Thoughts on Civil Society.- Part II: The Rise and Fall of Contemporary Japanese Capitalism.- Chapter 4: The Introduction of Regulation Theory in Japan.- Chapter 5: Postwar Japanese Capitalism and Companyist Regulation.- Chapter 6: The Collapse of Companyism and Today’s Post-companyist Transformation.- Chapter 7: Analyses of Japanese Capitalism Based on the Regulation Approach: An Overview of Thirty Years of Research.- Part III: Theoretical Considerations of Contemporary Capitalism.- Chapter 8: Stage Theory or Typology?: Methodological Reflections on the Comparative Analysis of Capitalism.- Chapter 9: Economic Crises and Growth Regimes.- Chapter 10: The Neoliberal Regime and its Possible Crisis: A Reflection from the Viewpoint of Institutional Change.- Chapter 11: Transition Economies and State Capitalism.